February
24, 1905 – A freight train on the Chicago Great Western road
was wrecked near Claybank today. Several cars were piled in a heap, others are
in the ditch and a bridge about 150 feet is gone. The cause of the wreck was
the breaking of a flange.
The broken flange struck the ties and tore up the bridge, and as a result seven or eight cars and the caboose were wrecked. One gondola is in a ditch some distance away and several cars loaded with grain and coal are smashed. No one was injured. It took all day today and will take most of tomorrow to clear away the wreckage and rebuild the bridge. Freight traffic on this division is abandoned until the track is fixed, but passengers are transferred.
The Minneapolis Journal; “Wreck Near Claybank;
Great Western Road Loses a Bridge and Several Cars.”; Feb. 25, 1905; p. 8.The broken flange struck the ties and tore up the bridge, and as a result seven or eight cars and the caboose were wrecked. One gondola is in a ditch some distance away and several cars loaded with grain and coal are smashed. No one was injured. It took all day today and will take most of tomorrow to clear away the wreckage and rebuild the bridge. Freight traffic on this division is abandoned until the track is fixed, but passengers are transferred.
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